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Novaya Gazeta closes: Russia's independent newspaper shuts its Moscow newsroom, saying 'We have been killed'

Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent newspapers, ceases to exist on Monday 9 November, more than three decades after it was founded. In a farewell statement published on 30 October, its staff wrote: 'We have been killed. On November 9th, we will turn off the lights in the home where we have lived for 30 years, shut down our servers, and leave.' The paper said it had been evicted from its Moscow offices and its reader-donation platform shut down, leaving it with no resources, after years of repression that cost five of its journalists their lives. Its exiled sister paper, Novaya Gazeta Europe, continues from Riga.